[eclipse.org-committers] Re: portal available for new committer voting

[Ward Cunningham <ward.cunningham@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Merks and David Williams have reminded me that not all projects  
vote based on project membership. Our development process allows that  
committers can be elected on a project component basis. It is our  
desire that the portal, and the databases that drive it, accurately  
reflect the governance applied to the Eclipse codebase. To that end  
we've opened bug 177087 to discuss solutions.

	https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=177087

The portal code as deployed can still be used to conduct committer  
elections for component based votes with slight loss of  
functionality. If a project component has its own mailing list, that  
list can be specified at the time of nomination and all vote  
notifications will go there. The portal will offer voting  
opportunities to all project committers. Those who are not eligible  
to vote will have to know this themselves and keep hands off. If  
folks get it wrong, votes can still be counted manually.

If you'd rather have the full-auto experience you can stay the course  
until 177087 get worked out.

Best regards. -- Ward


On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Ward Cunningham wrote:

> The Eclipse MyFoundation portal is now available for new committer  
> elections. The portal is the preferred way to conduct elections and  
> will be the only way to conduct elections soon. Elections in  
> progress should be completed as always. But new nominations should  
> begin at:
>
> 	http://portal.eclipse.org
>
> Committers will find there a link labeled "[Nominate]" which will  
> begin the nomination process. Elections started on the portal  
> should be conducted on the portal. You will receive email reminding  
> you to go to the portal to cast your votes there. PMCs will get  
> email reminders too when it is time for them to act.
>
> I have written blog posts that introduce the portal concept:
>
> 	http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2007/02/myfoundation-portal-1- 
> of-12.html
>
> And show how voting progresses:
>
> 	http://eclipse-projects.blogspot.com/2007/02/portal-voting-2- 
> of-12.html
>
> I am happy to answer questions about the portal and portal based  
> voting. I would prefer that inquiry start with your dev lists and  
> get forwarded to me when there is no answer forthcoming there.
>
> Of course bugs and feature enhancement requests are welcome through  
> bugzilla.
>
> 	Classification: Eclipse Foundation
> 	Product: Community
> 	Component: Portal
>
> Our initial response to the portal has been quite positive. I hope  
> your experience is likewise.
>
> Best regards. -- Ward
>
> --
> Ward Cunningham
> Director, Committer Community Development